Facial expressions offer potent displays of emotions and to a large extent are universally understood. Yet the social context or framing around an expression is important and can color how we ...

MARTINEZ — Geoff Meredith knows well what it means to serve in the military, but he also has the heart of an artist. So when the Lafayette veteran, who served in the Army in the 1960s, got together ...

Lisa Feldman Barrett’s recent essay in The New York Times, “What Faces Can’t Tell Us,” seeks to undermine the science showing universality in the interpretation of facial expressions. In her eyes, ...

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The dominant view in current theories of face perception is that facial identity (recognizing who a person is) and facial expression (interpreting their moods and feelings) are processed by distinct ...

Researchers have described different emotional facial expressions for mice. Similar to humans, the face of a mouse looks completely different when it tastes something sweet or bitter, or when it ...